Gmail now allows you to unsend that regrettable mail

After a prolonged beta period lasting six years, Google has extended Gmail’s “Undo Send” option – the perfect way to handle emails you wish you’d never sent – to all its users.

techUpdated: Jun 24, 2015 11:12 IST

HT Correspondent Hindustan Times

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After a prolonged beta period lasting six years, Google has extended Gmail’s “Undo Send” option – the perfect way to handle emails you wish you’d never sent – to all its users.

But there’s a catch – a user will have the option to undo a sent email for between five and 30 seconds, depending on what they have indicated in the settings.

Google first introduced the “Undo Send” feature to Gmail in March 2009 but the feature stayed quietly in the Labs section, where Google tests new features that users have to manually switch on to access.

When users enable Undo Send, they are able to “unsend” an email within a set period of time after they have hit the send button. Once users have clicked “Send”, they’ll see a notification giving them the option to “Undo Send”.

Gmail briefly delays sending the email so that users can change their minds.

Undo Send is now part of Gmail’s settings under the “General” tab. It is disabled by default unless users already had the option switched on in Labs.